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How Time Machine backs up iCloud Drive in Sonoma

Unless you exclude them from backups, Time Machine will back up all items in iCloud Drive as long as they’re stored locally when the backup is made.

July 5, 2024 Macs, Technology

Should you try the public beta-release of Sequoia?

What you need, what the risks are, and how to ensure you don’t have problems if things go wrong. Includes coverage of VMs and more.

July 1, 2024 Macs, Technology

What do XProtect BehaviourService and Bastion rules do?

Introduced in macOS Ventura, these monitor for potentially malicious behaviours, according to 12 Bastion rules. Detections are recorded in its local database and reported to Apple as security intelligence.

June 28, 2024 Macs, Technology

How file systems can change in Sequoia with FSKit

Apparently Sequoia includes user space file system support, as now used for the MSDOS file system in macOS. Is it ready to use yet?

June 26, 2024 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Something for the weekend?

This weekend we’re in the Lake District. Wouldn’t it have been simpler if, rather than preparing a notebook, all I needed was a VM with all my apps pre-installed and ready to go?

June 23, 2024 Macs, Technology

How Sequoia changes virtualisation on Apple silicon

Sequoia’s macOS VMs and Apple ID, USB storage and other devices, number of concurrent VMs, nested virtualisation, and how to run Sequoia beta in a VM on Sonoma.

June 17, 2024 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Excitement and despair

It’s over 10 years since Apple stopped providing documentation such as programming guides. Some of the consequences on concurrency, virtualisation, AI and SwiftUI are considered here.

June 16, 2024 Macs, Technology

A brief history of Mac enclaves and exclaves

T1 and T2 chips in Intel Macs, integral in M-series chips, used in Sequoia’s virtual machines at last, and an essential feature in Private Cloud Compute.

June 15, 2024 Macs, Technology

What’s going on with AI in Sequoia?

How we have gone from spell-checking, through optical character recognition, to Sequoia’s new Writing Tools that can proofread and summarise text.

June 13, 2024 Macs, Technology

SilentKnight 2.9 and Skint 1.07 updates restore auto-update

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These fix auto-updates, and extend SilentKnight’s Help to cover Apple silicon security. Compatible with Sequoia.

June 12, 2024 Macs, Technology, Updates

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